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How hard is it to shim a locker 
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Hahnsb2
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Can you vague that up a little?
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for example a detroit locker or any brand that replaces the carrier and bolts to the ring gear
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You can add a shim to a non-lockers side gear. A stock rear, non posi type to make it into a limited slip. Is that what your talking about?
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I think he is talking about setting up a differential with a full carrier locker. It is no harder than doing any other carrier/gear swap.....
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a mechanic friend made it sound like you had to go to a specialist
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Just someone who knows how to properly set up a ring a pinion and has all the specialty tools required to do so...